Rail-anchor.



C. F. CLAWSON.

RAIL ANCHOR.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. [9. I918.

Patented Feb. 4, 1919.

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RAH. ANCHOR.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.19, 1918.

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q wmvemboz SATS A CHARLES F. GTiAWSON, OF MOUNT PLEASANT, IOWA, ASSIG-NOB, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, F TWO-THIRDS T0 REEMT LUEBBERS, 9F EMDEN, ILLINOIS.

RAIL-ANCHOR.

Application filed February 19, 1918.

and use the same.

My invention has for its object to pro vide an extremely simple and inexpensive, yet a highly efficient and durable device for anchoring railway rails against longitudinal creeping; and with this general object in view, the invention resides in the novel features of construction hereinafter fully described and claimed, and shown in the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention in use;

Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the rail showing an edge view of the anchor;

Fig. 3 is a central sectional view of the anchor, the rail being shown'in transverse section;

Fig. 4% is a disassembled perspective view of the anchor;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the jaw;

Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the yoke plate with the j aw in section; and

Fig. 7 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 3 but showing another form of fastening means which may be employed.

In the drawings above briefly described, the numeral 1 designates a flat horizontal yoke plate adapted to extend transversely across the lower side of the rail base as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 7 said plate preferbly decreasing in width toward one end and having at said end a pair of integral hooks 2 for gripping one edge of the aforesaid rail base. The other end of the plate 1 is provided with a pair of upstanding lugs 3 to engage the opposite edge of the rail base, and the upper sides of these lugs are inclined downwardly toward their outer ends to impart a wedge like formation to said lugs for a purpose to appear. The inner edges or ends of the lugs 3 are beveled at their upper portions as seen at 4 for initial engagement with the rail base after the hooks 2 have been hooked over the opposite edge of said base. By then prying the lug Specification of Letters Patent.

"ntented Feb. a, 1919.

Serial No. 218,109.

end of the plate upwardly, the lugs and hooks will be tightly engaged with the rail.

For holding the yoke plate 1 in proper engagement with the rail, a jaw 5 is employed, said jaw having a base plate 6 underlying plate 1, and an inclined flange 7 overlying the adjacent edge 01": the rail base. The lug end of the plate 1 is snugly received. between the base 6 and the flange 7 and the inclined upper edges of the lugs 3 tightly engage said flange. The outer sides of the lugs in question abut vertical flanges 8 which extend between the base 6 and the flange 7,

and other horizontally disposed flanges 9 extending along the side edges of said base. By this means, relative turning and shitting of the yoke plate 1 and the jaw 5 is prevented.

Preferably employed for locking the jaw and yoke together, is a beveled locking pin 10 receivable in alined openings 10 in said plate and the base of said aw, said pin rising from one end of a fiat spring 11 whose other end is se ured at 12 to said. base. When the jaw 5 is driven in place, the pin 10 is depressed until the openings 10 aline. and when this takes place the spring 11 immediately projects the pin in question to hold the device assembled until said pin is released. For this purpose, :1 lug 13 is preferably formed at the free end of spring 11 so that a railroad spike or other suitable device may be employed for releasing the spring. An opening 14 is formed in flange 7 in vertical alinement with the openings 10, and in case of breakage of spring 11. a cotter pin 15 may be passed through the several openings as seen in Fig. 7. Also, I may construct the device so as to substitute a cotter pin or other appropriate key for the spring 11 and locking pin 10.

The jaw 5 is provided with a Pair of depending abutments 16 which are spaced apart a greater distance than the hooks 2, either one or the other of said abutments being adapted to strike oneof the railway ties as will be clear from Fig. 1. Since movement of one end of the anchor is thus arrested, while the other end is free, it follows that a canting action will take place which causes the device to tightly grip the rail even though no sharpened edges are provided; and thus creeping of the rail is positively prevented.

In applying the device, the hooks 2 are engaged with the rail base and the opposite end of the yoke plate 1 is pried upwardly by a crow-bar or the like to tightly engage both the lugs 3 and said hooks with the rail base. The jaw 5 is then driven in place and either the locking pin 10 is automatically thrown upwardly to hold the parts together, or the cotter pin or the like 15 is inserted. Regardless of the exact connecting means of the yoke plate and jaw, the device will be highly elficient for the purposes intended. Furthermore, the improved anchor is inexpensive and easy to manufacture, the yoke plate 1 being preferably stamped from suitable gage metal, while jaw 5 is cast from malleable iron or other suitable material.

Since probably the best results are obtained from the several specific details shown and described, these details are preferably employed, but within the scope of the invention as claimed, numerous minor changes may well be made.

I claim:

1. A rail anchor comprising an elongated yoke plate to extend transversely across the lower side of the rail base, a pair of hooks rising from one end of said plate to grip one edge of said base, a pair of lugs rising from the other end of said plate for contact with the other edge of the rail base. the rail engaging edges of said lugs being beveled at their upper ends for initial engagement with the rail, a jaw having a base underlying the last named end of said yoke plate and having a flange overlying the rail base, whereby to hold said yoke plate against the rail, means for securing said jaw and plate together, and an-abutment depending from said jaw for contact with a tie, said lugs being wedge shaped and being wedged against the lower side of said flange.

2. A rail anchor comprising an elongated yoke plate to extend transversely across the lower side of the rail base, a pair of hooks rising from one end of said plate to grip one edge of said base, a pair of lugs rising from the other end of said plate for cont-act with the other edge of the rail base, the rail engaging edges of said lugs being beveled at their upper ends for initial engagement with the rail, a jaw having a base underlying the last named end of said yoke plate and having a flange overlying the rail base, whereby to hold said yoke plate against the rail, means for securing said jaw and plate together, and an abutment depending from said jaw for contact with a tie, said secur ing means including a spring secured at one end to the lower side of said jaw base and a locking pin rising from the free end of said spring, said jaw, base and yoke plate having openings receiving said pin.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES F. CLAWSON.

Witnesses:

G. M. KRIEGER, FRED C. Woonson.

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Washington, D. C. 

